What's going on: Iran says its nuclear program is self-sufficient

Ehsan Khosravi / Mehr News AgencyAli Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, cuts a ribbon Sunday in front of a truck containing Iran's first domestically mined raw uranium, at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility (UCF), central Iran, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Iran announced Sunday that it has delivered its first domestically mined raw uranium to a processing facility, claiming it is now self-sufficient over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. The translation reads "First shipment of yellowcake produced in Bandar Abbas mill".

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said today that the country's nuclear program is self-sufficient because Iran can can make everything it needs for the nuclear fuel cycle, including yellowcake, a uranium powder that is used in creating nuclear fuel.

"Again Iran has shown the ill-wishers and international criminals that we are standing up to pressures and resistance is the first lesson of our revolution and we would like to assure you that we will make you regret your devilish moves," Ali Akbar Salehi told state-run television, The Los Angeles Times reported.